Everybody, say Hi to my younger Sister, Julie.

OK, all heads can be straighten now.  Thank you!

I wish I had the time to put these pictures into LO (layout). I would transformed them into a very lovely autumn theme with lots and lots of maple leaves all around us. Well, let’s see how it goes. I have to juggle my time between work, blogging (hi, Boss) and kids. Sometimes i just wish I have never sign up for paid post but I needed the funding. Well, at least I got my first US$100 just in time to buy a gift for my Mom on Mother’s Day. My next US$300 would be targeting on a Tamron lens. Hopefully the exchange rate will go up slightly by then.

Well, looks like no one is interested to join me for a picnic. YOU ALL MAKE ME SO DISSAPOINTED! DON WAN FLEND YOU ALL LIAO!!! *bluek!!!!*

The rain has just stop but did not completely stop. Gazing out my front door, I saw a humming bird bathing under the gushing water from the gutter. I quickly ran and get my camera. That was a quick under 10 seconds sprint but the bird is no where to be seen. Too bad, the bird didn’t want to be seen bathing nakid and probably ended up in the blogsphere. Boohoo!

Since I have my camera in my hand, I just shot the water droplet from the fence.

Timing has to be right even thought the cam was set at multiple shots. Out of 20, this is the closest to what I’ve wanted.

And out of 50, I could only managed to capture 2 shots with the water splashing. Obviously the water drops from the roof/gutter.

Aitelyu, I spent a good 20 minutes squatting in the water puddle snapping this. By the time I’m done, you can see me walking like a duck. My bad back la!

When my Sister was expecting her 1st child, I’ve told myself that I would try to captured as many baby moment as possible.  Things are easier said that done, other than her newborn pictures and some silly rambling here nor there, in a blink, he is now about 6 months old.  I think the next round of photography of him would be the time when he learn how to walk!

At 6 months, Jonathan loves to crawl on all four like a military man and occasionally toggling his butt back and forth in the air. Cute!

Being a lousy  photographer- wannabe, I get lots of over exposed picture.  If there is anyone of them that I really like, I’ll change it into the black&white mode. Like this:

That way, you can’t really tell if they are over exposed 😉 . Still, there are more room for me to improve.

Tips:  To shoot a baby’s photographs, it is best to aim the camera at their eye level even if you really need to go down all the way to the floor!

The tiny little hand that grip.

The tiny little pair of foot that curl.

From Big to Small some say from wearing pampers to g-string

Aunty hijacking 3 months old Nephew as model. hehe.

The adult hand is mine but the adult foot is his Mummy’s.

After I bought my dSLR, I have not abandon my faithful Sony T-10 (which we called it PNS – ‘Point n Shoot’ camera). One thing about dSLR, the distance for macro shot is about 6 inches away (or more!). With my PNS, I can go as near as 3cm away from the object.

See the result:

Do you think I will invest in Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM macro lens? Nehhhhhhhhhh. I can always go back to my faithful PNS.

Give you a better view:

And the 3y/o is really innocent not knowing what the brown slimy thing is doing on the plants (or she didn’t know there is a brown slimy thing on the plants!).

Well, I couldn’t stop her in time but hey, shutter speed is fast ya 😉 . And you must see the shock on her face when I ask her to take a closer look at the brown caterpillar.

Without failed on every CNY, I will dress up my ‘Models’ in chinese traditional costume to take a few shots of them for rememberance around the house. But this year, the lazy bugs is overpowering me. I’ve decided to skip the docorating at home. At least, I painted one side of the wall, ok! Now that I have a newly painted wall, I lagi sayang want to stick anything on it.

So, instead of shooting the kids inside the boring house, I dragged the kids to The Curve.

*Proceed at your own risk. High bandwidth ahead!*

The fat chubby huge boy won’t go away.

It was a breeze shooting Model # 1 *phew*

Well, upon seeing the beautiful pictures from the LCD screen, the Photographer-wannabe herself did not want to miss the opportunity to have her pictures taken too. Good thing there are a few other dSLR camera owner. I get one of them to help us take a shot. Once I passed him my Canon 400D, he was fiddling my camera. I peep at his dSLR and saw him using a Nikon one. In a speed of lightning, he went and turn (as in zoom) my 50mm F1.8 lens. I just go, “Nooooooooooooooooo!” Fyi, 50mm lens is NOT a zoom lens. I nearly went and lecture him about 50mm lens. *pfft….*

The first shot from him:

Over exposed! Well, not really over exposed. There are some spot lights shining on the stage. But I still like it. How does it looks in black & white mode?

I still like them nevertheless.

I quickly thank him after that, grabbing my cam and walk away cursing under my breath.

Model # 2 turn:

Model #2 can’t wait to see how much bonus she received.

Watch this. When she found out there is no cash in the angpow packet, she went berserk!

She was throwing tantrum and refuse to cooperate. Aiseh, so we belanja her eat kum (mandarin oranges).

There you go. Now she is happy again. But still with gloomy face 🙁

Model #1 happily finish up the rest of the kum. I was salivating behind the cam.

You must be wondering where is Model #3. Earlier at home in the studio, he told us beforehand that, “Transformers don’t wear Ah Pek clothes (Chinese traditional costume)! Transformers don’t like to take picture. Transformers fight!”

What’s wrong with kids nowadays?

All I get was this:

Whenever I aimed the cam at him, he would disapear from the thin air. Maybe can invest in a Bazooka lens, hor!

Finally, he agreed to have his picture taken. All because of a bribe piece of bread.

errrr…. I gotta go now. Model #2 is running awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!

Ever since I bought a new dSLR two weeks ago, I have not shot or in another word, UNABLE to capture any good and decent looking photograph. One reason is because I can’t find anything nice that inspire me to shoot.

On weekend as usual the kids will be running in the playground. Again, I was reluctant to bring my New Babe out to play. The topic doesn’t inspire me at all. Kids + playground = Boring! Somehow I thought to myself, “When are you going to start learning if you don’t start it now?” I just gave it a shot. If nice, then I’ll blog it. If it turn out otherwise, there goes the CTRL + D andddd……………………..???

Picture number ONE!

Using 50mm F1.8 lens which is my favourite lens (if only I can afford the 50mm F1.4!).

After the first shot, I know I will love the topic. dSLR really brings out the subject. Somehow, there’s a huge difference if you are using a pns (point and shoot) camera.

Don’t know what to talk liao. I will stop writing and let you enjoy the pictures.

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At other times when Baby Princess is running too fast, I’ll shoot the little kids around me. And I love the above picture so much. Look at the happiness on her face.

The sun is about to set hence why this picture is a bit dark.

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Did you ever wonder why I put up only Baby Princess photographs?

Because the two eldest went cycling.

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Wah, why her face lidat wan? You see, is lidis wan. The car boot can only fit one bicycle. Once we reach the playground, both of them fighting over the bicycle. So I get them to one, two, som! (scissors, paper, stone) Princess lost so she merajuk. Ma cry lor. Is lidis wan la. *sigh…*

Ok. Last picture.

Other than edited to merge the two pictures, the rest is original.

So, I would say, when I was using pns, I’ve never like to shoot in the playground cos everything looks so dull. Now with dSLR, everything looks lifelier. I am more than satisfied with my new Babe.

I miss the worries-free-life while using a PNS (point and shoot) camera. Never in my photography life would I need to try out so many settings, change the ISO, increase the shuttle speed, the AV, TV, aparture… gosh!

When I thought this is kinda nice shot, my sifu (master) said the picture is too soft. I should increase the ISO 🙁 . There’s too many calculation and adjustment needed for a newbie like me.

On Christmas eve, I bought a 50mm F1.8 lens too. All the photographs shown here is taken with the lens. I was really paranoid when I don’t get what I want in the first few shots and of course I deleted more photos than I save them. Good thing this is dSLR!

Here are some ramdom shots that I like.

Baby Princess is observing my Eldest Sis pleating her cousin’s hair. She just had her hair done too.

Camera was aimed at my niece’s eye while her Mummy (my eldest sis) was pleating her hair.

50mm F1.8 lens is good for portrait shot to create creamy background. The further the background, the creamier it is.

I still love to take close-up portrait.

So apa maciam Sifu-sifu sekalian?  Where should I need to improve?